"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre)
08/04/2018 at 11:56 • Filed to: None
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"Kiltedpadre" (kiltedpadre)
08/04/2018 at 11:56 • Filed to: None | 0
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My wife was nice enough to spend part of her lunch yesterda to find out what mulch place near me that’s open Saturday has the best prices. There are 5 or 6 mulch places within 5 miles so it did take a few calls.
THEN she informs that on top of her usual Saturday morning of teaching swim lessons at the local YMCA she’s been asked to give a lesson to one of her friend’s son. She won’t be home till almost 5 she said. So, with the help of my 11yo son I got to spread two yards of mulch this morning.
The mulch place did have this for sale out front.
1961 F-600
Signs says it has 22,000miles, and they want $9500. It looks nice but that seems high for a heavy duty truck with a limited pool of interested buyers. I don’t know what engine it has, but I doubt it’s original because it’s been changed to an auto trans.
MrDakka
> Kiltedpadre
08/04/2018 at 12:15 |
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That sounds like a lot of work, even with your son . Sounds like you need more children as sources of free labor joy.
XD
vondon302
> Kiltedpadre
08/04/2018 at 12:26 |
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I hear ya. 150 dollar granite birdbath. How heavy could they be?
Oh 359 to 400 assembled.
My back still hurts.
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Kiltedpadre
> MrDakka
08/04/2018 at 12:35 |
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I don’t know. Given how much work and money it takes to get them to the useful help age I’m not sure that’s a sound investment.
I’ll take sweating through 2 yards of mulch (we actually need 2-3 more but it’s too hot now to keep going) over a couple years of diapers anytime.
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Kiltedpadre
> vondon302
08/04/2018 at 12:38 |
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We had one made of concrete in the middle of our yard when we moved in. My wife sold it to someone when she got tired of hearing me complain about mowing around it and dealing with the mosquitoes.
Unfortunately, her sale price included me delivering the damn thing. How I managed to deliver it without breaking it or me I’m not sure.
JCAlan
> Kiltedpadre
08/04/2018 at 13:10 |
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Ugh. I’ve done the truckload of mulch approach before. To me, the little money that you save isn’t worth the headache. It’ll be a year before you get all that mulch cleaned out of the bed and it stops kicking up and sticking to your back window. I just buy bags now. W ith bags there’s no mess, and you just put them where you want it and open them up. No shoveling, no wheel barrow.
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vondon302
> Kiltedpadre
08/04/2018 at 13:15 |
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We had a concrete one for free that I had glued back together. Dummy me thought it would be similar in weight.
Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Kiltedpadre
08/04/2018 at 13:58 |
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There is a distinct lack of tarp here.
What wears out your mulch? Just natural decomposition?
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Kiltedpadre
> JCAlan
08/04/2018 at 14:01 |
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Ten minutes with a good stiff broom and a hit with a power washer, and I’m good to go. I saved just under 35% by buying two yards by the truckload versus bagged. Plus, the bulk of where I was working is fairly spread out in terms of plants so it was easy to get the wheelbarrow everywhere I needed.
Plus, having the kid in the bed filling it made it pretty easy.
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Kiltedpadre
> Eric @ opposite-lock.com
08/04/2018 at 15:44 |
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Yeah, it had just broken down to nothing. We moved in 3 years ago, and the realtor had put down just enough to look mulched. It was nowhere near thick enough even when new.
I’ve had two tarps destroyed this year and keep forgetting to get a new one. I need to grab one before a camping trip next weekend.
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Eric @ opposite-lock.com
> Kiltedpadre
08/04/2018 at 16:18 |
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My in laws lay down like 2-3” of the stuff on their yards every 3-5 years. It just breaks down fast around here for some reason. I’ve helped with a couple re-mulchings.
My place has a decent layer, but between the landscapers raking it every time they come and edging, there are some spots where it is thin to nonexistent. I will need to do something about it in a year or so.
Maintaining a house sucks, I’ve learned . It was enough of a pain to fix sprinklers all the time (it was my assigned job because I was good at it) when I was a teenager and young adult living at home.